Energy costs and regulations forcing poultry farmers to quit
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to another This Week in Farming, your bulletin of the best content from the Farmers Weekly website. Here are five of the biggest topics that have been driving the conversation in the farming world this past week, and a look ahead to what’s coming up on the next edition of […]
This Week in Farming: Cereals, AHDB levy and fuel outlook
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to another This Week in Farming, your bulletin of the best content from the Farmers Weekly website. Here are five of the biggest topics that have been driving the conversation in the farming world this past week, and a look ahead to what’s coming up on the next edition of […]
Minister backs aims of Farmers Weekly’s food fraud campaign
Farmers Weekly Green campaign group Feedback has taken the government to the Court of Appeal claiming that it has acted unlawfully by failing to implement measures to reduce production and consumption of meat and dairy. At a hearing on 16 June, lawyers representing the claimant, Global Feedback, argued that the Defra secretary was “required” to […]
Government taken to court over meat and dairy emissions
Farmers Weekly Green campaign group Feedback has taken the government to the Court of Appeal claiming that it has acted unlawfully by failing to implement measures to reduce production and consumption of meat and dairy. At a hearing on 16 June, lawyers representing the claimant, Global Feedback, argued that the Defra secretary was “required” to […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 161: Farmers face a hike in AHDB’s levy rates
Farmers Weekly In this episode, farmers face a hike in levy rates under plans announced by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. It follows what has been described as a ‘near death experience’ by the levy board and an admission that it hasn’t been delivering for growers. See more: AHDB seeks more funding after ‘near […]
AHDB seeks more funding after ‘near death experience’
Farmers Weekly Can Napoleon be blamed for UK farmers being poor at working together? That’s the hypothesis David Richardson makes in his book, In at the Deep End. He notes the civil law that the tiny emperor ushered in decreed, upon the death of a landowner, that the land had to be divided equally between […]
Editor’s view: AHDB will become pointless without more cash
Farmers Weekly Can Napoleon be blamed for UK farmers being poor at working together? That’s the hypothesis David Richardson makes in his book, In at the Deep End. He notes the civil law that the tiny emperor ushered in decreed, upon the death of a landowner, that the land had to be divided equally between […]
Video: How a lowland farm is preparing for low-methane sheep
Farmers Weekly Results from the first UK farm to test methane emissions in sheep using portable accumulation chambers have shown they were producing on average about 20g/day of methane and 1.2kg/day of carbon dioxide. The trial took place at Hole Farm, Hertfordshire where Rob Hodgkins and Jo Franklin run 2,500 New Zealand Romneys and sell […]